museum

Before writing this post I looked to see if I had already written about it, and yes I had! I already wrote about The New Children’s Museum here before but it doesn’t matter I thought. I have new experiences and lots of new photos and I want need to share with you how great it is!

This time we went thanks to the Library, you can reserve a pass for the whole family to go for free to the museum, when it’s your turn they let you know and you have to go pick up the pass like if it is a book, then use it and return it on time, excellent! This helped a lot because otherwise the admission for a family of 4 is not in our budget right now.

As soon as you get to the New Children’s Museum there are colors everywhere and my kind of colors: bold and vibrant; I feel at home there! Psst, you want to know something? I took the picture of MamiTalks’ header at this museum, at one of the activities! That’s how much I love it’s colors!

I learned from their website that they commission contemporary artists to create pieces with tactile, physical and participatory elements, opening up a world of art to children through opportunities to observe and create. I think that’s why it’s so different, because the artists make special emphasis on all that.

Well, even though the museum is not that huge, the kids have SO MUCH fun with every single detail there is for them to do.

They base all the exhibits on a theme and this time they have the food theme; the ropes with balls was the kid’s favorites and those are oranges and whenever they swinged or walk around the cords, some sounds started playing, it was cool.

In the first floor outside they played with clay and then they painted that yellow structure (see photos), that was fascinating! If you see it with some detail that is a small windmill which they have had for years there and every week they change the colors for kids to paint over and over and over, so it’s taking a whole other meaning with the paint layers!

My most favorite has to be The Rain House, this one is a permanent part of the museum and it was there 5 years ago when we first visited, when you go in it you can hear rain falling on the roof of the house and it says that the open spaced provide a great place for children to explore and use imaginary play. I just love it!

Then there is the beautiful jumpy they have right now, it’s made out of cute fruits and veggies and it’s just eye candy!! Check out the seats that were out where we did the clay, they are some type of benches covered with beautiful and bold patterns, very unique!

I’ve already said this before but if you are thinking about going to this museum, don’t think any longer, just come and experience it, you’ll love it!!